Introduction: La Premiere In The New La Premiere

Welcome to my next trip report series, covering a recent trip I took to Paris for one night. This will be one of my shorter trip reports, since it was just a three day trip.

In this series, you can expect flight reviews of Avianca’s A320 business class, Avianca’s 787-8 business class, and Air France’s 777-300ER first class. You can expect a review of the Courtyard Charles de Gaulle Airport, plus some airport lounge reviews.

Why I took this trip

I had a very simple motivation for taking this trip — Air France recently launched its new La Premiere first class product, and the airline invited me to experience it on the inaugural flight. While I get quite a few invitations, as a policy, I pay for my own flights, and it has been around 15 since I last accepted a media flight.

However, sometimes rules are meant to be broken, and I made an exception here. The first class cabin wasn’t even for sale to the public on the inaugural flight, and getting a first look at this product is something that I couldn’t turn down (and for those who don’t get the trip report series title, “La Premiere” is the French term for “the first”).